A SCHOOL caretaker who stored drugs in a safe at work has been jailed for three years.

Bernard O'Neill (38) apologised in court to the school principal and staff.

Garda John Walsh told Dublin Circuit Criminal court that the he found €1,146 worth of cocaine in O'Neill's BMW after he stopped the car randomly at a checkpoint and noticed the driver was nervous and sweating.

Gardai found €464 of cocaine in O'Neill's bedroom wardrobe and a further €7,400 of cocaine and €1,346 of cannabis along with weighing scales and a spoon in the portable safe at St John's College De La Salle, Ballyfermot, Dublin.